List of Commonwealth of Nations prime ministers

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This is a list of the prime ministers of the Commonwealth of Nations in order of appointment.

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NationHead of governmentName of head of governmentIn office since
Brunei Prime Minister (Sultan) Hassanal Bolkiah 1 January 1984
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves 29 March 2001
Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit 8 January 2004
India Prime Minister Narendra Modi 26 May 2014
Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne 13 June 2014
Saint Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Terrance Drew 6 August 2022
Namibia Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa 21 March 2015
Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Keith Rowley 9 September 2015
Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 19 October 2015
Tanzania Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa 20 November 2015
Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness 3 March 2016
Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth 23 January 2017
Lesotho Prime Minister Tom Thabane 16 June 2017
Rwanda Prime Minister Édouard Ngirente 30 August 2017
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley 24 May 2018
Cameroon Prime Minister Joseph Ngute 4 January 2019
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare 29 April 2019
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape 30 May 2019
Tuvalu Prime Minister Kausea Natano 19 September 2019
Malta Prime Minister Robert Abela 13 January 2020
Gabon Prime Minister Rose Christiane Raponda 16 July 2020
Guyana Prime Minister Mark Phillips 2 August 2020
Togo Prime Minister Victoire Tomegah Dogbé 28 September 2020
Belize Prime Minister Johnny Briceño 12 November 2020
Samoa Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa 24 May 2021
Uganda Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja 21 June 2021
Eswatini Prime Minister Cleopas Dlamini 19 July 2021
Saint Lucia Prime Minister Philip Pierre 28 July 2021
The Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis 16 September 2021
Tonga Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni 27 December 2021
Mozambique Prime Minister Adriano Maleiane 3 March 2022
Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese 23 May 2022
Grenada Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell 24 June 2022
Sri Lanka Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena 22 July 2022
Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim 24 November 2022
Vanuatu Prime Minister Charlot Salwai 6 October 2023
New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon 27 November 2023
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif 4 March 2024
Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong 15 May 2024
United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer 5 July 2024
Bangladesh Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus 8 August 2024

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